[Stoves] Attn Leslie. Please see this new cook stove

Fireside Hearth firesidehearthvashon at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 26 16:31:48 CDT 2011



					Hello.....

      My Husband and I have created a new wood 
stove which we are looking to find a manufacturer with whom we can 
partner up with and get this product to market.
Please enjoy the 
following article and if you are interested please contact us either by 
return e mail or by calling 206 458 5650.
Thank You, 
  Roger and Bridget Lehet 




					by Deborah Bach

				
				
					Created in desperation, boat stove becomes business venture
					Jan 12 2011 in Business of Boating by Deborah Bach
					
						

1ShareRoger Lehet with a prototype of the stove he spent about six months developing, which is now being manufactured for sale.
A year ago Roger Lehet was in a desperate situation, on the verge of 
losing his business while moving onto a boat with his family because 
they could no longer afford their house payments.

Today Lehet is filled with renewed hope, believing that the woodstove
 he designed and built to warm his boat might also be his ticket to 
success.

Lehet says his stove, which is currently being manufactured for sale,
 will burn a single presto log for at least 6.5 hours and is more 
efficient than anything else currently on the market. The stove will 
also burn wood and driftwood, Lehet says, and with simple modifications 
can also run on pellets, kerosense, diesel or glycerine.

He’s applied for a patent and says as word of his product has spread, people are showing interest.

“Every day I get phone calls from dealerships and people who want to 
be able to stay out on their boats all year, and this is definitely the 
key to that,” says Lehet, 45.

Desperate times

Last winter, business at Fireside Hearth Shoppe, the Vashon Island 
store Lehet opened in 1985, was so slow he started opening by 
appointment only. He and his wife got rid of their cars and were barely 
scraping by.

So when a customer offered Lehet a 30-foot Bayliner Contessa in 
exchange for a woodstove, Lehet — who had barely ever driven a boat, let
 alone owned one — said yes. His wife was not thrilled about the 
arrangement, Lehet says, though her 9-year-old daughter saw it as a 
great adventure.

The trio moved aboard in February, anchoring out in Quartermaster 
Harbor. The storms came, bringing pelting rain and powerful gusts. Lehet
 had to learn quickly about maintaining a boat. One of the first lessons
 was that a propane heater is not the optimal choice onboard.

“It just turned the boat into a shower,” Lehet says. “It was just icky, moldy sheets and the whole nine yards.”

He tried a generator-powered electric heater, but it used a lot of 
fuel and he worried the noise would annoy the neighbors. He looked for a
 stove with a glass door, that could burn all night on a load of fuel 
and that he could cook on. It also had to fit inside of a 12-inch wide 
cabinet, the only convenient place on the boat to put it.

But Lehet couldn’t find what he wanted, so he set about making it 
himself. The back of his boat serving as a workshop, Lehet toiled 
through the winter and spring, designing and testing his stove. The 
first version got so hot the chimney fell off and hit him in the 
forehead. Over the next four iterations he tweaked the stove’s air flow,
 gradually lengthening the burn time.

“I was able to extend the burn time much longer on the same load of 
fuel,” Lehet says. “The only problem was, it was ugly as hell. Someone 
saw it and said, ‘You should get this thing patented and make it 
pretty.’”

Lehet didn’t have the money for a patent application, but says a 
customer of his offered to pay for it. A grateful Lehet dubbed the stove
 “the Kimberly” after the man’s wife, who was also supportive of his 
project. He soon partnered with a machinist, who Lehet says is now 
manufacturing the first 500 units of the stove at a facility in Orting, 
Wash.

The first batch will have stainless exteriors and be priced at 
$3,500, and Lehet plans to also offer models with copper, brass and 
anodized aluminum exteriors. The stoves have a 316 stainless steel 
interior and a chimney that vents from the back to keep the stovetop 
free for cooking.

“We cook bacon and eggs on it, hamburgers, steak … it makes the best buttered rum,” Lehet says.

A new venture

An initial run of 500 units may seem risky, but Lehet says based on the level of interest he’s hearing, he doesn’t think so.

“I think that 500 are going to be gone in probably two months,” he 
says. “More and more people have been coming out of the woodwork and 
saying, ‘How soon can I get one?’”

Lehet is pursuing certification to ensure his stove meets U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency standards and already has plans for 
expansion — adding water coils so the stove can double as a hydronic 
heater, developing an oven that will mount on top, making smaller-sized 
stoves suitable for backpacking, creating a line of accessories.

Ultimately, he hopes to take over an empty space on Vashon previously
 occupied by K2 Skis, which left the island nearly a decade ago and 
moved its manufacturing abroad. Lehet, who opened his shop on Vashon at 
age 18, wants to help provide jobs for his fellow islanders.

“It’s going to be a very high-quality stove,” he says. “It’s going to
 be manufactured here and we’re going to put people to work here.”

Fireside Hearth Shoppe
 is now back to regular opening hours, and Lehet and his family have 
moved back into their house, which he co-owns with his mother. Though 
the past year has been a struggle, Lehet also sees it as a blessing.

“I’m very thankful I hit rock bottom. I needed it,” he says. “I’ve 
had my fat years and I’d gotten kind of lazy and complacent. To have 
everything stripped away — all the toys are gone and you’re going to be 
living on a boat because you don’t have a choice — it’s a very humbling 
experience.

“Had we never come to the brink of destruction business-wise and 
moved onto a boat and gone through these experiences, I never would have
 done this.”

From: cookstoves at unfoundation.org
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org; estufas at lists.bioenergylists.org
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:08:20 -0700
Subject: [Stoves] Alliance Newsletter - July 2011



New Staff Developments at the Alliance Sec. Clinton Highlights Clean Cookstoves in India Internationally Known Actress Joins Alliance as Global Ambassador New African Partners Join the Alliance Alliance Working Groups Submit their Priority Roadmaps UN General Assembly to Highlight NCDs in September Partner Spotlight: World Health Organization Sign up as an Alliance Partner New Staff Developments at the AllianceDear Alliance Partners, Donors, Stakeholders, and Friends,I am pleased to share with you some exciting news regarding the latest steps in the evolution of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.  After a long and careful search, the Alliance is proud to announce that Radha Muthiah will take over as Executive Director, effective September 1 of this year.  Radha brings more than two decades of experience successfully fostering partnerships and alliances in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors.  In particular, she has broad experience in leading organizations through transition and toward new opportunities and in developing and executing innovative business models to promote economic development.  Before joining the Alliance, Radha served as the Vice President for Strategic Partnerships and Alliances at CARE International, USA.  As a member of CARE’s senior management team, she led efforts to create and leverage the organization’s strategic partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, leading universities, and NGOs.  Radha first joined CARE as the Assistant Country Director in India, where she oversaw the programmatic, personnel, budgetary, management, and administrative components of the country program and managed CARE’s interactions and partnerships at the national and state government levels.  Born in London and raised in Kuala Lumpur, she holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Tufts University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University.  Her experience also includes leadership roles focused on branding, partnership development, and management at ICF International, the American Red Cross, and Mercer Management Consulting.Radha’s arrival also signals a return to my position as Senior Director of Partnerships for the UN Foundation’s Energy and Climate Program, where I will continue to play an active role in the ongoing development and growth of the Alliance.  What started out as a six-week temporary role when we launched last September turned into an incredible experience over the past year that has allowed me to work with a truly dedicated group of professionals to get the Alliance up and running.  We can take much pride in the significant progress we have made together over the past year in launching, funding, and advancing the Alliance and its ambitious goals, but the Alliance faces an even greater challenge in successfully executing an action plan to meet our ambitious target for the worldwide adoption of clean cookstoves.  I hope you will join me in giving Radha our full support as she takes ownership of this goal.I also want to recognize Dr. Sumi Mehta, who joined the Alliance in early May as a Senior Technical Manager.  Sumi has almost a decade of experience in the health impacts field, with a special emphasis on those issues associated with the use of traditional cookstoves, and has played a particularly valuable role in helping the Alliance tap the global groundswell of interest in addressing non-communicable diseases. I am pleased to welcome Radha and Sumi to the Alliance, and I am eager to continue working with them, as well as the rest of the UN Foundation’s team, to raise the resources necessary to meet our ambitious goals.Thank you for your enthusiastic support of the Alliance. I look forward to our continued close collaboration.Sincerely,
Leslie Cordes
Interim Executive DirectorSec. Clinton Highlights Clean Cookstoves in IndiaAs part of her recent trip to India, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton highlighted clean cookstoves and the Alliance at an event at the Women’s Working Forum in Chennai.  Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan of Sri Ramachandra University, a global leader on health exposure assessment in the cookstoves sector, and a primary investigator of many leading cookstoves research efforts in India, led Secretary Clinton through a demonstration of Alliance partners’ stoves, including Prakti Design, First Energy, EnviroFit, and TERI.  They also discussed new and advanced monitoring tools for this sector used in Dr. Balakrishnan’s laboratory.During her remarks, Secretary Clinton announced that two major Indian industrial organizations – the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) – have joined the Alliance.  Both will be invaluable partners in building successful and sustainable cookstove businesses and consumer financing options across India.  Secretary Clinton also praised the Government of India for their National Biomass Cookstoves Initiative.CII has committed to link community efforts to its extensive industry network, help commercialize promising cooking technologies, and help integrate clean cookstoves into its other members’ projects.  FICCI will support small and medium-sized local cookstove enterprises, develop microfinance channels to support the purchase of cookstoves, develop women’s employment options, and support Alliance interaction with the Indian government.Internationally Known Actress Joins Alliance as AmbassadorAcademy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts has signed on as Global Ambassador for the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.As Ambassador, Ms. Roberts will help the Alliance raise domestic and international awareness of the health, environmental, and economic impacts faced by millions of people around the world from the use of traditional cookstoves and open fires. 
Ms. Roberts first learnedabout the Alliance earlier this year while interviewing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – an enthusiastic advocate for the Alliance – for a television special entitled “Extraordinary Moms” that was broadcast on the OprahWinfrey Network. She has also collaborated with Secretary Clinton to promote clean cooking solutions in opinion pieces and news stories that have appeared in publications such as USA Today, TIME Magazine, and Politico.“Nearly 2 million people around the world – mostly women and children – die each year from an activity that many of us take for granted: cooking for our families,” Roberts – herself a wife and mother – said upon becoming Global Ambassador. “I am proud to stand with Secretary Clinton to work to reduce the senseless and preventable deaths from unsafe cooking conditions in developing countries, and I look forward to contributing to the important work of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.”New African Partners Join the AllianceOn the heels of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Africa in mid-June, the governments of Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, and Rwanda, together with the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, joined Tanzania as the newest national partners to join the Alliance! The seven African partners join our 100 plus partners to overcome market barriers and achieve global-scale production, deployment, and use of clean cookstoves in the developing world. Some of these countries have already established specific goals for bringing clean cooking solutions to their populations, which have long suffered from health complications related to polluting and inefficient cooking.  For example, Ethiopia has a goal of reaching nine million homes over the coming five years, while the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which includes as founding partners four Nigerian federal agencies, has a goal of reaching 10 million homes in the coming decade.  Others like Burkina Faso, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania have longstanding expertise, high-level commitment, and many innovative domestic activities in this sector.  Lesotho is planning domestic manufacturing of advanced solid biomass cookstoves via a local partner of the multinational corporation Royal Philips Electronics.These new partners will be critical as the Alliance works to achieve its ‘100 by ’20’ goal. The Alliance is grateful for their leadership and partnership, and looks forward to working closely together towards our collective and ambitious goals.The new African partners join other Alliance national partners – Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Norway, Peru, and the United States. Alliance Working Groups Submit their Priority RoadmapsThe Alliance’s Working Groups and Cross-Cutting Committees, including more than 350 experts on issues ranging from health, gender, humanitarian, climate research, finance and investment to standards and testing and monitoring and evaluation, have recently submitted their ‘Roadmap Recommendations,’ intended to identify the key priorities for creating a thriving global market for clean cooking solutions.  Unlike the Early Action recommendations submitted earlier, which identify actions which would have an immediateimpact on the sector, these recommendations focus on activities that would enable 100 million households to adopt clean and efficient stoves by 2020.In late June, the Alliance convened a two-day meeting of Working Group Co-Chairs and Coordinators to begin the process of weaving both the early-action items and the long-term roadmap recommendations into a broad strategy that will help define the sector’s ability to reach scale. Each Working Group presented its findings, and smaller breakout sessions later combined experts from different priority areas to identify major themes, priorities, and trends for the sector.The recommendations will be used to create an integrated strategic ‘roadmap’ report that will foster a unified vision of the sector and serve to inform donors and policymakers of the steps and resources needed to meet the ‘100 by ’20’ goal. The report is expected to be released in early fall and will be distributed widely.UN General Assembly to Highlight NCDs in SeptemberAs the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves calls attention to the health complications caused by cooking with inefficient cookstoves and traditional open fires, a special focus is on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – ailments like cancer, lung disease and others that are not contagious.  These comprise more than 40% of diseases worldwide and are increasing rapidly, anticipated to cause 70% of all deaths by 2020. The United Nations General Assembly is convening a High-Level Meeting on NCDs in New York in September, and we are working with our partners in the global health and advocacy communities, as well as the US Department of State, Centers for Disease Control, and the National Institutes of Health, to ensure that the complications from cookstove smoke – including NCDs like lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, and chronic lung disease – are recognized by the General Assembly and other key stakeholders. As an article in The Lancet recently made clear, NCDs are an impediment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.Partner Spotlight:  World Health Organization Setting First Indoor Air Quality Guidelines for Household Fuel CombustionWorld Health Organization (WHO) guidelines often form the basis for the development of standards and policies, particularly in developing countries.  In recognition of the substantial burden of death and illness associated with indoor air pollution from cooking and heating with solid fuels, the Alliance, along with the German international development agency GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH) and Health Canada, funded WHO’s launch of a process to set the first Indoor Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) for household fuel combustion earlier this year.  A key objective of these guidelines will be to promote and guide policy on access to clean household energy in developing countries and supplement WHO’s AQGs for combustion-related air pollutants.In January, WHO’s Nigel Bruce and Heather Adair-Rohani, in collaboration with Michal Krzyzanowski, convened a technical meeting to finalize the scope of the indoor air guidelines for household fuel combustion.  The draft guidelines are expected to:  Set interim targets based on improved fuel and/or stove combinations that result in substantial decreases in exposure to harmful pollutants.  WHO and the Alliance will work together to ensure that standards developed for cleaner stoves and fuels are consistent with these interim targets.  Provide an estimate of the health benefits expected every time an interim target is achieved, in order to encourage interventions that provide substantial health benefits.  Offer specific recommendations for the use of selected fuels posing specific health concerns, such as coal or kerosene, and circumstances in which certain fuels should be avoided altogether, such as coal contaminated with arsenic and/or fluorine. Discuss factors to consider when developing market-based approaches to dissemination of the guidelines, including the role of the public sector, regionally specific concerns, and the challenges of promoting equity and reaching the most vulnerable populations. Emphasize the importance of monitoring and evaluation.  Since the guidelines are intended for a public health audience as well as stakeholders from other settings, including pollution control boards, stove developers, implementers, health policy analysts, and development specialists, WHO plans to work closely at the country level, and also develop tailored guidance materials, to ensure that key stakeholders understand the relevance of these guidelines and the potential implications for their work.  The guidelines are expected to be released in 2012, following a stakeholder meeting and development of a distribution plan.Sign up as an Alliance PartnerThe Alliance is always seeking additional partners who embrace our far-reaching vision and are interested in providing leadership, funding, expertise, in-kind resources, and/or other support to advance the Alliance’s mission. We invite interested representatives from all stakeholder communities – including the private sector, United Nations, women’s groups, government, philanthropy, policy-making, research and development – to join the Alliance as partners in the design and implementation of our programs
                                                                        and advocacy efforts.To become a partner of the Alliance, please visit: 
http://cleancookstoves.org/the-alliance/partnership-opportunities/Thank you for your support!Overview - The Alliance - Resources - About Us - Working Groups - Contact UsGlobal Alliance for Clean Cookstoves - ©2011 United Nations Foundation
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